ARTS EDUCATION TEACHER HANDBOOK

ELEMENTARY ASSESSMENT ITEMS

Submitted by Lee F. Zimmerman, Wake County Public Schools

Title:
Quarterly Performance Assessment

Grade Level or Course:
Fourth & Fifth Grade Beginning Band

Targeted Goals and Objectives from the 2000 North Carolina Arts Education Standard Course
of Study and Grade Level Competencies, K - 12:

Fourth Grade Music (can be adapted for 5th Grade Music):

• 2.01-Play with pitch accuracy.
• 2.02-Play with rhythmic accuracy.
• 2.03-Play with appropriate technique and posture.
• 2.04-Play expressively using appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
• 2.05-Show respect for the instrumental playing efforts of others.
• 3.01-Improvise rhythmic and melodic question and answer phrases.
• 3.04-Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic variations of familiar melodies.
• 3.05-Improvise short songs and instrumental pieces using a variety of sound sources.
• 3.06-Show respect for the improvisational efforts of others.
• 4.01-Compose short music compositions for voices or instruments using pentatonic and major diatonic scales and varied rhythmic values.
• 4.05-Show respect for the composing and arranging efforts of others.
• 5.01-Read whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 meters.
• 5.02-Read pitch notation.
• 5.03-Identify symbols and traditional terms referring to expressive qualities, including dynamics and tempo.
• 5.04-Use standard notation symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple musical patterns.
• 5.05-Show respect for the reading and notating efforts of others.
• 6.01-Identify simple music forms when presented aurally including AV, ABA, Call and Response, Rondo, Ballad, and Introduction/Coda.
• 6.02-Demonstrate perceptual skills by conducting, moving, answering questions about, and describing aural examples of music of various styles and cultures.

Link with other subjects:

N/A

Type of Assessment:
x Diagnostic
x Monitoring
x Summative

Type of Item:
_ Selected Response
_ Written Response
x Performance
_ Conversation
x Observation

Scoring Information:

Teacher should have the following to score this progress report:

• Individual student worksheets and quizzes on note and rest values, notation, musical terms and symbols, rhythm reading, and compositions.
• Individual student performance of assigned material, sightreading and improvisation to evaluate tone, tonguing, hand position, posture, embouchure, sticking, note reading and rudiments.
• For this quarterly progress report, students' scores on each item will be averaged to show parents their child's progress in band that quarter.

Teacher notes:

Students should have completed at least one quarter before they have this form completed.? Some items will not be able to be graded the first quarter, but items will be added throughout the year.

Students should be made aware of this report at the beginning of the year, and may even be given a copy for the students to grade themselves as they complete each quarter.

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